Often sweet, sometimes healthy, good with milk, starts your day off right. What isn't to love about cereal? Grainy, sugary, marshmallowy, oaty, corny, vitamin-and-mineral-enriched crunchy blobs of goodness. Sometimes it gets soggy. It would be easy to go on and on about all the qualities of cereal. But one thing's for sure. America loves it. We eat literal tons of it every year (not each of us, well, maybe some of us eat that much.. but tons in the overall sense).
Da Big-ass Cereal Chart: this isn't a full listing of cereals (of course). It's a brief summary of cereals often enjoyed by many people. And then there's what WE think of 'em.
| Name of Cereal | Health Factor, 1-10 | Taste Factor, 1-10 | Comments: | # of bowls you'd eat before getting sick |
| Honeycomb | 5-6 | 6-7 | good cereal. lightly sweet, very airy, corn-poppish. | 3-4 |
| Lucky Charms | 2 at best | 8-9 | psychadelic pastel marshmallows and enough sugar to give a day-trip. | by taste, 10. by how much your stomach would allow, 3. |
| Grape Nuts | 9 we guess | 1 at best | neither grape nor nut nor good, these suck. | not even 1. |
| Raisin Bran | 8 | 4 | you gotta be in the mood for these fiberflakes. | 2 maybe |
| Total Bran Flakes | 9-10 | 3-4 | raisin bran without the raisins.. soggy real fast. | 1 and a half (you'd OD on vitamins) |
| Cheerios | 7-8 | 4-5 | they boast low sugar. sugar means taste in cerealworld. | 2, 4 with additional tablesugar sprinkled on |
| corn pops | 4-5 | 6-7 | popcorn for breakfast.. with sugar.. pretty good. | 3 or 4 |
| Cap'n crunch | 4 not counting safety risks to one's health (gum cuts) | 6-8, depending on variety | they taste good, but god, you cut your mouth up on these ever-crunchy pillows of grain | 2 for plain, 3 for peanut butter, 5 for crunchberry variety |
| count chocula | 3 | 8 | lucky charms.. but with spookiness and chocolate! | probably 5 |
| rice krispies and cocoa krispies | 6, 3 | 3, 6 | health or chocolate.. you decide. | 2 (with sugar), 3 and a half |
| cocoa puffs | 4 (because it encourages drinking of cereal-milk) | 7 | they turn your milk to chocolate milk. Yummy and sweet. | 4 or 5 |
| fruity pebbles | 2 | anne says 2, most people say 5-6 | some people like these. anne hates 'em. too soggy. | anne says "1 if there was no other cereal...", others: "2 or 3" |
| crispix | 6 | 6-7 | perfect combination of taste, health and crunch | anne could eat a whole box. the rest: 2 or 3 |
| frosted flakes | 4 | 5 | sweet, but mushy fast. a decent old-skool fave. | 2 |
| trix | 3-4 | 7 | colorful, happy, tasty and fun. a fruity classic. | 3 |
| cookie krisp | 3 | 7 | chocolate chip cookies for breakfast? what could be cooler? crunchy too. | 3.5 |
What do you think ? We're taking a poll of favorite cereals...
Send us your vote for whatever cereal is your fave and why (short answer here). Results will be posted in an upcoming issue of VH...
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